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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by dragonwriter on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:55AM (#21279287)
> Familial and veteran status are also not changeable i.e. if you already have children or are a veteran, you can't go back and change that fact.

Familial status is changeable: you can marry, have children, divorce, give children up for adoption, and be widowed. All of which change family status. Actually, even aging of children changes family status, since the age of children is itself a factor relating to the family that is covered by protections against family-status discrimination.

> discrimination over a criminal record ... which ... also can't be changed

Criminal record can legally be changed in both directions, though neither is under the full and exclusive control of the possessor of the record (though they certainly have an influence, in both directions)—new convictions, expungements, and pardons are all real things.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by triceratops on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:37PM (#21283769)
> you can marry, have children, divorce, give children up for adoption, and be widowed

Coercing someone into doing that under pain of discrimination is pretty cruel though.

> though neither is under the full and exclusive control of the possessor of the record

That's why I said not entirely in one's control. I'm aware pardons, expungements exist.

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